With Love, From Provincetown to New York

During his two consecutive seven-month residencies at Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in early 2010s, Matt Bollinger attended a few film script-themed parties with fellow residents. The concept was simple: each guest was given a copy of an iconic script and would take turns playing the part of a risk-taking paleobotanist or a flesh-hungry T-rex. “We were a bunch of extroverts and outside the studio hour, we had to construct these amazing and weird things to spend time,” he tells Family Style. The Ithaca-based painter is not only among the hundreds of artists and writers who sojourned at the residency from mid-fall into late spring—he is also among the lucky few to return to Cape Cod’s jewel town to curate the center’s annual summer group show. 

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Titled “Edge Condition,” Bollinger’s outing returned previous residents who are largely painters, including Lisa Yuskavage, Heidi Hahn, Angela Dufresne, Sam Messer, Arghavan Khosravi, and Amy Brener. After closing at FAWC at the end of August, the show arrives in New York this week at the center’s inaugural booth at the Armory Show. A salon style hang elevates the visual and personal threads Bollinger imagined between the grouping of contemplative vistas and portraits. The fair’s Not-For-Profit section positions the center with global heavyweights such as Tate and Whitechapel Gallery as well as New York’s own Creative Time which each claims a booth.  

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